What a great find!!!
Toyo Kogo, which is part of Mazda Corporation got the rights from Perkins to build a engine for Perkins. It is a true diesel engine. The best diesel engine put in a compact pickup period!
It is a naturaly asperated, overhead valve, dry sleaved, gear driven valvetrain, indereck injected, diesel. The engine holds almost 8 quarts of oil. It has 2 oil filters. 1 fullflow and 1 bypass. and it came equiped with a external oil cooler.
Use Napa oil filters. and I would save your money and use dino oil. I prefer Shell Rotella 15w-40.
I had 2 of them! I sold 1 with over 375,000 miles and kept my personal one. My personal one had a rough life.
I beat the #$@&%* out of it for over 513,000 miles.
Engine govener pegged the whole way on the New Jersey Tpk. for 4 1/2 years 5 days a week before I went through my 3rd input shaft bearing in the trans. and got tired driving it. so I sold it to a friend for $500.00 and he drove it for around another 60,000 miles. before he spun a rod bearing not warming it up in sub zero temp. so we rebuilt the engine.from an engine we found in a bone yard. the crank is hardened so we used the crank and 1 rod in the other engine. Threw in new mains and rod bearings. gasket set and new rings.
One note I must let you know when we pulled the head off the cylinders still had honing cross marks so we just honed it so the rings had something to seat on. then he drove it for aprox. 9 months months untill it could not be inspected any more.
He sold it to a person for $600.00 that exports them to Equadore.
It was the best truck I have ever had period! And I wish I could buy another new one.
My advise is like I said use dino 15w-40 oil and change both filters and oil at 3500 miles. because the engine will outlast the truck.
Oh and they love being run hard!!!(keep the RPM's up at around 2000-3000 city driving and highway 3500 is not to fast). Just don't baby it.
The only times I had seen a failure on this specific engine is not letting it warm up before taking off or lugging the engine.
Toyo Kogo, which is part of Mazda Corporation got the rights from Perkins to build a engine for Perkins. It is a true diesel engine. The best diesel engine put in a compact pickup period!
It is a naturaly asperated, overhead valve, dry sleaved, gear driven valvetrain, indereck injected, diesel. The engine holds almost 8 quarts of oil. It has 2 oil filters. 1 fullflow and 1 bypass. and it came equiped with a external oil cooler.
Use Napa oil filters. and I would save your money and use dino oil. I prefer Shell Rotella 15w-40.
I had 2 of them! I sold 1 with over 375,000 miles and kept my personal one. My personal one had a rough life.
I beat the #$@&%* out of it for over 513,000 miles.
Engine govener pegged the whole way on the New Jersey Tpk. for 4 1/2 years 5 days a week before I went through my 3rd input shaft bearing in the trans. and got tired driving it. so I sold it to a friend for $500.00 and he drove it for around another 60,000 miles. before he spun a rod bearing not warming it up in sub zero temp. so we rebuilt the engine.from an engine we found in a bone yard. the crank is hardened so we used the crank and 1 rod in the other engine. Threw in new mains and rod bearings. gasket set and new rings.
One note I must let you know when we pulled the head off the cylinders still had honing cross marks so we just honed it so the rings had something to seat on. then he drove it for aprox. 9 months months untill it could not be inspected any more.
He sold it to a person for $600.00 that exports them to Equadore.
It was the best truck I have ever had period! And I wish I could buy another new one.
My advise is like I said use dino 15w-40 oil and change both filters and oil at 3500 miles. because the engine will outlast the truck.
Oh and they love being run hard!!!(keep the RPM's up at around 2000-3000 city driving and highway 3500 is not to fast). Just don't baby it.
The only times I had seen a failure on this specific engine is not letting it warm up before taking off or lugging the engine.
